Mortada Qurbani

Mortada Qurbani was an Iranian IRGC Major-General during the Iran-Iraq War and the Persian Gulf crisis.

Biography
Mortada Qurbani was born in Iran, and he joined the IRGC following the Iranian Revolution of 1979. Qurbani rose to command the Karbala Division during the ensuing Iran-Iraq War, leading it in Khuzestan and Kurdistan. By the 2010s, he had risen to the rank of Major-General. On 7 January 2020, he claimed responsibility for the IRGC attack on the United States' al-Asad Air Base in Iraq and threatened further attacks if the US retaliated, warning the US that Iran was on high alert and would destroy its bases and humiliate it.